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Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by freedomben on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:31AM (#50153662)
Yep, drivers are one of if not the biggest blocker in my experience, and that's an area AI can help immensely
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by segmondy on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:54AM (#50153950)
Then vibe up the ones you need for yourself.
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by Angostura on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:57AM (#50153989)
‘Click to write and install driver’
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by overfeed on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:27PM (#50154370)
> 'Click to write and install driver’

Theo de Raadt would spin in his grave — after the security implications of this to OpenBSD gives him a fatal aneurysm.

Either that, or he'll surprise-launch OpenLLM, a model bundled in the next OpenBSD release that produces driver code free of security bugs.

Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by sterlind on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:58PM (#50154815)
honestly LLMs could probably write drivers in CompCert C or some other formally verified dialect. having AI discharge proof obligations seems like a terrific use for all this newly-developed mathematical process.

you could have the driver code prove it implements a spec, that there's no UB, that hardware invariants are maintained, that routines take a fixed time to execute.

the formal driver spec must still be written by sober, well-caffeinated humans of course.

Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by speed_spread on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:15PM (#50155080)
That's also assuming the device is fully documented and that hardware behaves exactly as documented.
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by duskwuff on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:44PM (#50157118)
Anyone who has done any work with hardware can confirm that neither of these things is ever true. :(
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by ktta on Monday October 19, 2026 @12:51PM (#50154725)
> Theo de Raadt would spin in his grave

Isn't he still alive?

Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by boomlinde on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:08PM (#50154956)
> — after the security implications of this to OpenBSD gives him a fatal aneurysm.
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD by hulitu on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:30AM (#50194421)
Some managers only read the first sentence /s